Clear skies and mild weather is the stuff dreams are made of for most outdoor tracks, but it is racing as usual for the Tillsonburg Outlaws as great weather seems to encompass every Indoor race.
Hosted by Chesterman Power Products in Tillsonburg every Tuesday night, the May 4 season opener went without a problem weather wise. Although there were a lot of new things at the track this night, including multiple new Outlaw karts, there were also new racers, new electronic scoring, new containment wall, a new starter on the stand, new radio communication for track crew and new computerized scoring.
The last was the only glitch in the night as an incorrect setting had the staff scrambling faster than the racers to flip to manual scoring. All was well by the third heat as the improper setting was discovered and corrected.
Wayne Stainton did a bang up job his first night as starter both reviewing the flagging procedure for the new and old racers as well as looking after the race action on track for the night. Being in constant radio contact with the scorer and track, Marshall sure made things go better even when they were going wrong. The radios are a great addition to the track.
Beginners
Several new racers did not make the first race but the five that did provided some great action. Andrew Marshall, #48 proved that the combination of years of racing experience and a new kart may just have made him too fast for the Beginner class.
He got some tough competition though from Dylan Westbrook, #47, with Westbrook driving his first race and he also looks ready for the Junior's. Scott Hall, Carter Adcock and Rayse Meyer rounded out the field as they all made their driving debut and when joined in the coming weeks by Cole MacDonald, Dylan Watson, Kolton Couvillon, Jacob Sheridan, Paige Mahoney and Likely Jr. Green, we are going to have some very interesting action from the futures stars class of our club as they cut their racing teeth and find out what works and what doesn't.
Juniors
It’s a safe bet that the champion of this class is far from decided. Although last years champ DJ McRae, #20, took each race win, the margin of victory in the 30 lap final was an incredibly small seven one hundredths of a second, with a lapped kart in between, over Hannah Ferrell, #8. Finishing third on the night was Cody Adcock, #73.
Seniors
Can you say Cody Coburn? Coburn figured he was going to be starting from the rear of the field a lot as the result of the handicapping system and took the chance this week to start up front. He was the man as the rest of the field tried to keep up.
There are likely four other racers that could keep up but the fight over second place was so fierce that Coburn was hard to get to. With the spread of one point between four racers, Josh Beecroft, Dustin Churcher, Devin Jarvis and Conor Mahoney were basically tied for second when the night was done.
With this group having only experienced drivers this year there was hardly a caution making for non stop action. Consistent great results are going to be what it takes to win this division. Only time will tell who that racer will be.
Release Prepared by Dave Chesterman
Tillsonburg Indoor MX
Chesterman Power Products
www.chesterman.ca
519-842-5977
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